Classes

Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies: Solar Cell Course

The Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Certificate Program is offered through the Stanford Center for Professional Development. This certificate program offers working professionals the opportunity learn more about the current energy landscape from leading Stanford professors. Subjects include Solar Cells, Biofuels, Shale Gas, Water Splitting, Energy Storage, and Smart Grid, with more courses coming soon. The Solar Cell course covers basic solar cell operating principles, as well as the various technologies currently in the market. (3 hour lecture + ten question quiz. Successful completion of 4 courses earns a certificate).

MATSCI 161/171 Energy Materials Laboratory

A material that is currently being used in a cutting edge energy -related device such as a solar cell, battery or smart window will be thoroughly characterized throughout the quarter. Fabrication techniques could include electroplating, spin coating and thermal evaporation. There will be an emphasis in this course on characterization methods such as scanning electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, optical microscopy, four-point probe measurements of conductivity, visible absorption and reflection spectroscopy and electrochemical measurements (cyclic voltammetry). Devices will be fabricated and their performance will be tested. In this Writing in the Major course, students will put together all of the data they collect during the quarter into a final paper.

MATSCI 302 Solar Cells (Fall)

A material that is currently being used in a cutting edge energy -related device such as a solar cell, battery or smart window will be thoroughly characterized throughout the quarter. Fabrication techniques could include electroplating, spin coating and thermal evaporation. There will be an emphasis in this course on characterization methods such as scanning electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, optical microscopy, four-point probe measurements of conductivity, visible absorption and reflection spectroscopy and electrochemical measurements (cyclic voltammetry). Devices will be fabricated and their performance will be tested. In this Writing in the Major course, students will put together all of the data they collect during the quarter into a final paper.